Example sentences of "you [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | because I could n't speak English at all , I speak the , I could read a paper or a book , I du n no what is all about , but I used to get because you got on it for instant like mm |
2 | You came to me for help , remember ? |
3 | ‘ The more you talked about him with love , the more devastated I felt , ’ he said deeply . |
4 | It was easy to become mesmerized by the size of the budget , but when you looked at it in detail you found that almost half went on pensions and other payments to the elderly ; that 20 per cent went to families with children ; 17 per cent went to the unemployed ; and that 13 per cent went to the sick and disabled . |
5 | He said : ‘ When your brother Maurice 's wife was ill and David was an infant I understand you looked after him from time to time . ’ |
6 | " Maybe it would look different to you if you thought about it in English , " Mr. Mendez said and watched him closely . |
7 | ‘ When the caretaker found you , you spoke to him in Russian . |
8 | ‘ You spoke to them in Portuguese ? ’ |
9 | ‘ What was it you said to him after dinner ? ’ |
10 | Check for any areas of hazard such as pillars , radiators , chairs or competitors ' bags near the area — anything , in fact , that might cause you injury if you ploughed into it at speed . |
11 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |